Not to be ghoulish, but when you're in the media, you learn that sometimes you have to be the bearer of bad news. And when you are a junkie for reading the wires, you find the news as soon as it breaks.

Plus, if it someone that deserves memorializing (or in the Darryl Kile, when it is NEWS), it shouldn't be 'swept under the rug.'

Ed: And hey, it didn't post about Ann Landers or Dear Abby, whichever one of the sisters that passed away last week.

A. Billy Sims was on the Lions, the Bad Luck Schleprock team of the NFL. B. The Vikings history left out 1999, where the offense was rekindled with the addition of JEFF GEORGE, who had his second-best year as a pro.